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Instruct offers funded access to structural biology technology and services for researchers in member countries and organisations - utilise high-end machinery, get training, internships, and collaborations!
Director Harald Schwalbe has been in attendance today at the Doctoral defence at @cerm-cirmmp.bsky.social in Florence, following a long tradition of the 38th European doctorate at Univ. of Florence

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November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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We are pleased to share that the #EPR data acquired here at CERM/CIRMMP last February, through an @instruct-eric.bsky.social access project, have now been published in Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects!

Read the full article here
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November 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Enjoying the useful and informative discussions at the
@ri-hubs-eulac.bsky.social General Meeting today, outlining collaborations between Instruct and RIs and projects to advance interactions in LAC!

@cnb-csic.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social @ipmontevideo.bsky.social @ericforum.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Just arrived in Brussels! Looking forward to discuss the work done with respect to improve ERICs international engagement
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A few days ago we discussed the importance of the topic with the ERIC committee
@ec.europa.eu @instruct-eric.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
All ready this morning for the Structural Biology in Slovakia and Beyond conference!

We have a packed day of talks and discussions with Instruct-SK, outlining the latest research and opportunities for structural biology in Slovakia!

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November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Lucia Banci, Instruct-IT, and Harald Schwalbe visit the new Instruct-DE research side at TU Munich.
Lucia covers the technological developments in drug screening by in-cell NMR, supported by Fragment-Screen

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November 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
At this years German User Meeting of Bruker, Instruct Director Prof. Harald Schwalbe introduced the Access options in Instruct for structural biology to more than 200 NMR Scientists, including many facility managers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland - instruct-eric.org @schwalbe-lab.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
It's great to be at the EOSC Symposium in Brussels today, showcasing our data management capabilities in structural biology and beyond! @eosc-beyond.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We were delighted to hear from Daniele Trivellato at the 52nd National Conference on Magnetic Resonance, outlining their research on intrinsically disordered proteins!

Daniele accessed Instruct through the R&D funding programme - find out more here instruct-eric.org/rd-project-a...
October 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Registration is open for the Instruct Best Practices in Cryo-EM Workshop!

Taking place at the @humantechnopole.bsky.social in Milan, the workshop takes facility staff through latest developments in EM.

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October 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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🙌 We are delighted to be part of this candidate #EOSC node with @elixir-europe.org @embl.org and @instruct-eric.bsky.social, to help make image data interoperable & accessible to all.
Learn more ⤵️
📣 ELIXIR, @eurobioimaging.bsky.social, @instruct-eric.bsky.social & @embl.org joined forces to establish 🙌 the #EOSC Life Sciences Connect Node: https://loom.ly/9BLk_tY

#EOSC_Federation
October 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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📣 ELIXIR, @eurobioimaging.bsky.social, @instruct-eric.bsky.social & @embl.org joined forces to establish 🙌 the #EOSC Life Sciences Connect Node: https://loom.ly/9BLk_tY

#EOSC_Federation
October 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
📣 @elixir-europe.org, @eurobioimaging.bsky.social, Instruct-ERIC and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory @embl.org have joined forces to establish the #EOSC Life Sciences Connect Node as part of the newly formed #EOSC_Federation

Find out more here - instruct-eric.org/news/elixir-...
October 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Prof. Harald Schwalbe presenting Fragment-based Drug Discovery at at the 25th ChemBioChem Symposium!

Prof. Schwalbe is coordinator of the Fragment-Screen project, developing new tools for fragment-based drug discovery

Find out more here - fragmentscreen.org/home @schwalbe-lab.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Instruct is proud to sign the Joint Declaration on Gender Equality in Higher Education, Research and Innovation, along with several other research institutions across Europe, as the Gender Equality Prize Champions

Read the full declaration below:

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Joint Declaration on Gender Equality in Higher Education, Research and Innovation
Instruct-ERIC is a pan-European research infrastructure in structural biology, making high-end technologies and methods available to all European researchers.
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October 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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CERM/CIRMMP at the @fheritale.bsky.social Workshop in Bucharest

Representatives from CERM/CIRMMP are participating in the #FHERITALE workshop “From mapping to action: a co-creation pathway towards gap identification and thematic clustering”, taking place in Bucharest!
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 AM
A fantastic piece of news to bring, as Prof. Harald Schwalbe has been renewed as Instruct-ERIC Director!
The renewal ensures that focus can now be made on growing Instruct and aligning its future with developments within structural biology
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October 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Really excited to have our work out in the world. CCHFV has a 450kDa L-Protein, about twice the size of L-Proteins from other segmented RNA viruses. We have used cryoEM and functional assays to begin to understand it this massive multifunctional protein works.
Structural and functional characterisation of the Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever Virus RNA Dependent RNA Polymerase
Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever Virus (CCHFV) is found across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East where it can cause Haemorrhagic outbreaks with high case fatality rates. Central to the viral life cycl...
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October 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
An excellent couple of days at @elrig.org this week, highlighting the latest developments in structural biology and fragment-based drug discovery through Instruct and @fragment-screen.bsky.social!

Find out more about accessing FBDD services here - instruct-eric.org/platform-cat...
October 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Another fantastic collaboration with @nicolerobb.bsky.social ky.social @loiccarrique.bsky.social sky.social and colleagues not on here yet.

This work was strongly supported by @instruct-eric.bsky.social and ISIDORe who helped us access embl-heidelberg cryoEM and the VIB for nanobody production.
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October 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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How do artificial materials affect our lives? @fheritale.bsky.social project maps European research services and tech relevant to understanding the impact in Food, Health, and Environment domains. Researchers: check their survey and help identify priority needs 👉 bit.ly/3KV69O8
October 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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@instruct-eric.bsky.social ist eine Forschungsinfrastruktur im Bereich #Strukturbiologie und soll Forschenden modernste Technologien und Methoden europaweit zugänglich zu machen. Das deutsche Instruct-Zentrum eröffnet heute an der Goethe-Universität.

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Forschung zur Strukturbiologie wird gestärkt | Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Eröffnung des deutschen Instruct-Zentrums an der Goethe-Universität An der Goethe-Universität nimmt am 17. Oktober das deutsche Instruct-Zentrum Instruct-DE offiziell seine Arbeit auf. Instruct-ERIC (...
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October 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
A great opening of Instruct Centre Germany last week!

Thank you to all who attended in Frankfurt and online, and we look forward to opening access to the advanced structural biology services for users worldwide!

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October 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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@instruct-eric.bsky.social is a pan-European distributed research infrastructure specialized in high-end technologies and methods in structural #biology. Today the German Instruct Center Instruct-DE officially begins its work at Goethe University.

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Instruct-DE Strengthens Europe’s Structural Biology Research Infrastructure | Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
With its launch at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany joins Instruct-ERIC to make cutting-edge technologies freely available to researchers across Europe. Today, October 17, 2025, the German Instruc...
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October 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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I was sad to miss this great event, I am in Brussels in a meeting of the @ericforum.bsky.social with the ERIC Committee organised by @ec.europa.eu
Great to see internationalisation as a priority for research infrastructures with emphasis on Science diplomacy

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October 15, 2025 at 8:20 AM